Faced with the expectation of being engaged in some form of scholarly activity, a key working condition for academic librarians is the ability to apply for sabbatical leaves. This presentation will report on specific ...

This investigation seeks to address two issues: first, to discover if there is evidence that
university students in foundational language courses need information resources to support their
language learning and second, ...

Swanepoel, Marinus(Center for Community Networking ResearchUniversity LibraryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)

The purpose of this paper is to report on a) an investigation on sustainability of community information networks and b) to reflect on sustainability issues surrounding a particular community information network: The ...

In 2005, the University of Lethbridge Library participated in the Spring 2005 “run” of the LibQUAL+™ survey developed by the Association of Research Libraries. 829 members of the University community responded to the ...

In November 2007,Canadian academic librarians were surveyed via CACUL-L and CAUTLib regarding their experiences with and advice regarding library councils (or similar bodies) within their respective academic libraries. ...

This paper describes a study that explored ways in which users’ subject-searching problems in a local online catalog might be reduced. On a weekly basis, the author reviewed catalog transaction logs to identify topics of ...

Graham, Rumi Y.(Toronto, ON : University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, c2011.Faculty of InformationUniversity of Toronto, 2011)

Subject searching—seeking information with a subject or topic in mind—is often involved in carrying out undergraduate assignments such as term papers and research reports. It is also an important component of information ...

A common goal of undergraduate degree programs is to foster students’ critical and creative thinking skills within a liberal education framework, the desired result being graduates who habitually make positive contributions ...

In the 2005 LibQUAL+ survey at the University of Lethbridge Library, graduate students in particular voiced their frustration with having to visit the Library every semester to update their library privileges. By 2007 and ...

At the IUG 2009 Conference, No more lines! (the original) described the implementation of the Patron Update Web Services at the University of Lethbridge for the purposes of facilitating real-time updating of student patron ...

The primary purpose of the present research was to standardize problem gambling prevalence rates so as to facilitate comparisons between jurisdictions as well as within the same jurisdiction over time. The first step in ...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) is one of the most preventable sources of developmental abnormalities, and has a singular cause-alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Estimates for the costs of treatment of a single ...

Most of Canada’s publicly-funded educational institutions have operated since the 1990s under blanket reprographic licences. But recent Copyright Act amendments and Supreme Court decisions in several copyright cases have ...

The purpose of this overview is to systematically identify and critically analyze the relevant scientific, descriptive, and policy-oriented literature in this area with the aim of providing a resource that will inform ...

There has been considerable debate about the best methodological and theoretical approach to analyzing the social and economic impacts of gambling, with one of the central issues being how to aggregate the social impacts ...

This review is an attempt to comprehensively identify and synthesize the literature examining the socio-economic impacts associated with the introduction of casino-style gambling. Search terms used for the literature review ...

The review of the literature on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Prevention
was carried out by a multidisciplinary team using a Cochrane-style systematic review
methodology. A key component of the review was the ...

The development of institutional repositories (IR’s) has been a recent one. IR’s were started by the University of Southampton (UK) in late 2000 when the University released a software package called E-Prints. Since that ...

Stevens, Rhys(Centre for Addiction and Mental HealthLibraryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2002-12)

On-line reports and papers are an increasingly popular way to distribute research findings. This trend seems to be especially true for the field of gambling and gaming research. New reports can be disseminated from Web ...